ABSTRACT
The author argues broadly against coercion on principle in the author's principles of liberty, but it is a difficulty that without a legal requirement some important actions will not be taken. This contemporary approach is crucial for effecting the broader adoption of the recent new approach to eye care the authors have seen in the UK. The actions of the unknown and the unknowable change the authors's situation while we even sit down to consider the matter. For in Nozick's account, we are the owners of the authors's own selves, and it is individual rights which should set the limits of State action. Wordsworth's healthcare advice was: 'The child is to the man.' It is a key to the citadel of better individual health status that we all should become more aware of consequences, starting in childhood. And it highlights the interconnections of issues such as health, disease, the ownership of the authors's bodies, and who lives with which consequences.
